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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17030	The witches of Northampton-shire Agnes Browne. Ioane Vaughan. Arthur Bill. Hellen Ienkenson. Mary Barber. Witches. Who were all executed at Northampton the 22. of Iuly last. 1612.		1612 (1612)	STC 3907; ESTC S115086	12,069	29

ended his course in this world with little hope or respect as it séemd of the world to come The Arraignement and Execution of Hellen Ienkenson THis Helen Ienkenson dwelling at a Towne called Thrapston in the County of Northampton was noted a long time to be of an euill life and much suspected of this crime before her apprehension for bewitching of Cattle and other mischiefes which before time she had done This Helen was apprehended for bewitching of a Child to death and committed to Northampton Gaole the 11 of May last by Sir Thomas Brooke of Okeiy Knight A little before whose apprehension one Mistris Moulsho of the same Towne after she was so strongly suspected getting her by a wyle into a place conuenient would néeds haue her searched to sée if they could find that insencible marke which commonly all Witches haue in some priuy place or other of their bodies And this Mist●…is Moulsho was one of the chiefe that did search her and found at the last that which they sought for to their great amazement at that time this Mistris Moulsho had a Bucke of clothes to be washt out The next morning the Mayd when shée came to hang them forth to dry spyed the Cloathes but especially Mistris Moulshoes Smocke to be all bespotted with the pictures of Toades Snakes and other ougly Creatures which making her agast she went presently and told her Mistris who looking on them smild saying nothing else but this Heere are fine Hobgoblins indéed And béeing a Gentlwoman of a stout courage went immediately to the house of the sayd Helen Ienkenson and with an angry countenance told her of this matter threatning her that if her Linnen were not shortly cléered from those foule spots she would scratch out both her eyes and so not staying for any answere went home and found her linnen as white as it was at first This Helen being brought to the barre and béeing indicted of the murther of the Child pleaded thereunto not guilty but the verdict béeing giuen vp against her shée cryed out woe is mee I now cast away But like the rest did stoutly deny the accusations and sayd that she was to die an Innocent I thinke as Innocent as the rest And at the place of Execution made no other confession but this That she was guiltlesse and neuer shewd signe of Contrition for what was past nor any sorrow at all more then did accompany the feare of death Thus ended this woman her miserable life after she had liued many yeares poore wretched scorned and forsaken of the world The Arraignement and Execution of Mary Barber THis Mary Barber of Stan●●●● in the said County of N●…rthampton was one in whom the licentiousnesse of her passions grew to bee the Master of her Reason and did so conquer in her strength and power of all vertue that shee fe●…l in the Apostacy of goodnesse and became diuerted and abused vnto most ●●de actions cloathing her desperate soule in the most vgly habiliments that either Malice Enuy or Cruelty could produce from the ●●ndnesse of her degenerate and deuillish desires As shee was of meane Parents so was she monstrous and hideous both in her life and 〈◊〉 Her education and barbarous nature neuer promising to the world any thing but what was rude violent and without any hope of p●●portion more then only in the square of ●●●iousnesse For out of the 〈◊〉 and blindnesse of her seduced sences shee gaue 〈◊〉 to all the passionate and earthly f●●●ies of the flesh and followed all the 〈◊〉 vanities and C●●meras of her polluted and vnreasonable d●●ghts forsaking the Society of Grace and growing enamored vpon all the euil that 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 minister to her ●…icious desires 〈◊〉 As appeared by her bewitching a man to death and doing much other hurt and harme to diuers sorts of cattle in the Country For which shee was committed to Northampton gaole the 6 day of May last by Sir Thomas T●●ham and the same and many other matters beeing plainely and euidently manifest and proued against her by good euidence shee had the sentence of death worthily pronounced against her In the time of her imprisonment she was not noted to haue any remembrance or feeling of the haynousnesse of her offences or any remorcefull tongue of the dissolute and deuillish course of her life The prison which makes men bee fellowes and chambermates with theeues and murtherers the common guests of such despised Innes and should cause the im●●●oned party like a Christian Arithmetician ●…o number and cast vp the account of his whole life neuer put her in minde of the hatefull transgressions she had committed or to consider the f●●th and leprosie of her soule or intreat heauens mercy for the re●…ea●…e thereof Prison put her not in minde of her graue nor the grates and lockes put her in remembrance of hell which depriued her of the ioy of liberty which she saw others possesse The iangling of irons did not put her in minde of the chaines where with she should bee bound in eternall torments vnlesse heauens mercy vnloosed them nor of the how●…ing terrors and gnashing of teeth which in hel euery soule shal receiue for the particular offences committed in this life without vnfained hearty con●…r●●ion She neuer remembred or thought she must ●…ie or trembled for feare of what should come to her after death But as her life was alwaies known to be deuillish so her death was at last foūd to be desperate For she the rest before named beeing brought from the common gaole of Northampton to Northampton Castle where the Assises are vsually held were seuerally arraigned and indited for the offences they had formerly committed but to the inditements they pleaded not guilty Putting therefore their causes to the triall of the Country they were found guilty and deserued death by the verdit of a credible Iury returned So without any confession or contrition like birds of a feather they all held and hanged together for company at Abington gallowes hard by Northampton the two and twintith day of Iuly last past Leauing behinde them in prison many others tainted with the same corruption who without much mercy and repentance are like to follow them in the same tract of Precedencie FINIS